xviii, 870 pages : 26 cm

Basic & Clinical Immunology has been totally reorganized and updated to continue its reputation as the superior textbook and review for both students and practitioners. The eighth edition presents an extensively reorganized and updated section on basic immunology in the clear, uncomplicated style that makes LANGE the ideal choice for contemporary, comprehensive medical information. Organized into four sections, Basic, Laboratory, Clinical Immunology, and Immunotherapy, this text enables readers to easily comprehend this difficult subject. Features totally reorganized and up-to-date section on basic immunology, normal immunologic function and disease processes emphasized, expanded Immunotherapy section, thoroughly updated and expanded coverage of immunodeficiency diseases, Immunologic Laboratory Tests section extensively updated with new methods and techniques, new chapter "Molecular Genetic Techniques for Clinical Analysis of the Immune System", and numerous illustrations simplify the identification of cells and their chemical products and receptors

Spine title: Immunology

"A Lange medical book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

14. Molecular Genetic Techniques for Clinical Analysis of the Immune System / Tristram G. Parslow -- 15. Blood Banking & Immunohematology / Elizabeth Donegan and Edith L. Bossom -- 16. Histocompatibility Testing / Beth W. Colombe -- 17. Laboratory Evaluation of Immune Competence / Daniel P. Stites -- 18. Mechanisms of Immunodeficiency / Arthur J. Ammann -- 19. Antibody (B Cell) Immunodeficiency Disorders / Arthur J. Ammann -- 20. T Cell Immunodeficiency Disorders / Arthur J. Ammann -- 21. Combined Antibody (B Cell) & Cellular (T Cell) Immunodeficiency Disorders / Arthur J. Ammann -- 22. Phagocytic Dysfunction Diseases / Arthur J. Ammann -- 23. Complement Deficiencies / Michael M. Frank -- 24. Mechanisms of Hypersensitivity / Abba I. Terr -- 25. The Atopic Diseases / Abba I. Terr -- 26. Anaphylaxis & Urticaria / Abba I. Terr -- 27. Immune-Complex Allergic Diseases / Abba I. Terr -- 28. Cell-Mediated Hypersensitivity Diseases / Abba I. Terr -- 29. Drug Allergy / H. James Wedner

30. Mechanisms of Disordered Immune Regulation / Alfred D. Steinberg -- 31. Rheumatic Diseases / Kenneth H. Fye and Kenneth E. Sack -- 32. Endocrine Diseases / James R. Baker, Jr. -- 33. Hematologic Diseases / John Vivian Wells and James P. Isbister -- 34. Cardiac & Vascular Diseases / Thomas R. Cupps -- 35. Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary, & Orodental Diseases / Stephen P. James, Warren Strober and John S. Greenspan -- 36. Renal Diseases / Curtis B. Wilson, Winson W. Tang, Lili Feng, Yiyang Xia and David M. Ward -- 37. Dermatologic Diseases / Sanford M. Goldstein and Bruce U. Wintroub -- 38. Neurologic Diseases / Hillel S. Pantich and Paul S. Fishman -- 39. Eye Diseases / Mitchell H. Friedlaender and Richard O'Connor -- 40. Respiratory Diseases / John F. Fieselmann and Hal B. Richerson -- 41. The Mucosal Immune System / Warren Strober and Stephen P. James -- 42. Reproduction & the Immune System / Karen Palmore Beckerman -- 43. Mechanisms of Tumor Immunology / Philip D. Greenberg

44. Cancer in the Immunocompromised Host / John L. Ziegler -- 45. Neoplasms of the Immune System / John W. Parker and Robert J. Lukes -- 46. Mechanisms of Immunity to Infection / John Mills and David J. Drutz -- 47. Bacterial Diseases / John L. Ryan -- 48. Viral Infections / John Mills -- 49. Fungal Diseases / David J. Drutz -- 50. Parasitic Diseases / James McKerrow and Donald Heyneman -- 51. Spirochetal Diseases / Charles S. Pavia and David J. Drutz -- 52. Virus Infections of the Immune System / Suzanne Crowe and John Mills -- 53. Opportunistic Infections in the Immunocompromised Host / Lowell S. Young -- 54. Immunologic Therapy / Abba I. Terr -- 55. Immunization / Moses Grossman -- 56. Allergy Desensitization / Abba I. Terr -- 57. Clinical Transplantation / Marvin R. Garovoy, Peter Stock, Ginny Bumgardner, Fraser Keith and Charles Linker -- 58. Immunosuppressive Therapy / Alan Winkelstein -- 59. Immunomodulators / Lawrence R. Hennessey and James R. Baker, Jr

60. Anti-Inflammatory Drugs / James S. Goodwin -- Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in Immunology -- Acronyms & Abbreviations Commonly Used in Immunology -- The CD Classification of Hematopoietic Cell Surface Markers -- Glossary of Symbols Used in Illustrations

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